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Indicated — Cumminstown

Fairy fort / ringfort

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A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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Situated on NE facing slope of low rise in grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as a circular shaped enclosure with trees in the interior and annotated as ‘fort’. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular grove of trees but not indicated on subsequent editions of the OS maps. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Visible as a circular shaped cropmark (approx. diam. 35m E-W) on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 16 June 2017
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